Dates: 1920s

2002.167.4

Black and white photograph of Margaret MacKinnon`s wedding c. 1920s or 30s.

Margaret MacKinnon’s wedding held in the barn at Dun Mor, Vaul in the late 1920s or early 30s.
Back row: Margaret MacKinnon (5th right), Charlie MacKinnon (4th right), Iain MacKinnon (3rd right).

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2002.167.6

Black and white photograph of Ruaig School in the mid-1920s.

Ruaig School in the mid-1920s. The teachers are Robert MacLeod (Campbeltown) and Christina MacKinnon (Tobermory), who had family from Scarinish. They married in 1930 in Glasgow and had one child, Peter, born in the Ruaig School House in 1933.

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1997.216.8

Admiralty chart 2638 of Loch Torridon and Loch Shieldaig.

Admiralty chart of Loch Torridon and Loch Shieldaig. (The chart was originally owned by Gilleasbuig MacFadyen (Gilleasbuig Ailein) of Gott, captain of the puffer `Dane` and uncle of Lachie MacFadyen, Caoles.)

1998.98.15

Black and white photograph of Donald and Margaret MacDonald.

Donald MacDonald (Domhnall Iain) of 10 Cornaigbeg with his wife Margaret who came from Melness in Sutherland, pictured outside their old house in the 1920s.

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2002.160.1

Audio cassette recording of Hugh Archie MacCallum interviewed by Maggie Campbell on 28/9/2002.

Hugh Archie MacCallum talks to Maggie Campbell in September 2002 about the Cornaigbeg crofts, the crofters’ names and patronymics; old and new methods of farming, seaweed and its uses, cattle shows; shebeens, shops, cobblers, the grocer’s horse-drawn van; the old schoolhouse at Cornaig and the United Free Church at Whitehouse; the evil eye; the shipwreck of the Malve during World War I. Eòghann Èairdsidh ’Ic Chaluim a’ bruidhinn ri Magaidh Chaimbeul anns an t-Sultain 2002 mu croitean Chòrnaig Bhige, ainmean agus sloinneadhan nan croitearan, dòighean sean agus ùr air croitearachd, feamainn, fèill cruidh, shebeens, bùthan, greasaichean, carbad bùtha air a tharraing le each, an t-seann sgoil Chòrnaig agus an Eaglais Shaor aig an Taigh Gheal, an droch shùil, am Malve a chaidh air na sgeirean aig àm a’ Cheud Chogadh.